Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-09 Thread Toralf Förster
On 12/9/22 07:02, David Fifield wrote: But now there is rdsys and bridgestrap, which may have the ability to test the obfs4 port rather than the ORPort. I cannot say whether that removes the requirement to expose the ORPort. Would be a step toward to make scanning for bridges harder IMO, if the

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, In my implementation of the loadbalanced OBFS4 configuration, it appears that BridgeDB still tests the ORPort for availability and without it marks the OBFS4 bridge as being down. I gather that default bridges don't require a DistributionMethod as your loadbalanced Snowflake configuration

Re: [tor-relays] inet_csk_bind_conflict

2022-12-09 Thread Alexander Færøy
On 2022/12/01 20:35, Christopher Sheats wrote: > Does anyone have experience troubleshooting and/or fixing this problem? Like I wrote in [1], I think it would be interesting to hear if the patch from pseudonymisaTor in ticket #26646[2] would be of any help in the given situation. The patch allows

Re: [tor-relays] inet_csk_bind_conflict

2022-12-09 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 09:47:07AM +, Alexander Færøy wrote: > On 2022/12/01 20:35, Christopher Sheats wrote: > > Does anyone have experience troubleshooting and/or fixing this problem? > > Like I wrote in [1], I think it would be interesting to hear if the > patch from pseudonymisaTor in tick

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-09 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 10:16:47AM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote: > On 12/9/22 07:02, David Fifield wrote: > > But now there is rdsys and bridgestrap, which may have the ability to > > test the obfs4 port rather than the ORPort. I cannot say whether that > > removes the requirement to expose the ORPo

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-09 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 08:43:26AM +, Gary C. New wrote: > In my implementation of the loadbalanced OBFS4 configuration, it appears that > BridgeDB still tests the ORPort for availability and without it marks the > OBFS4 bridge as being down. I see. Then yes, I suppose it is still necessary